Sentences with 'cockade'
Example sentences and phrases with the word cockade and other words derived from it.
• « While in the city of Rosario, General Belgrano asked the ruling Triumvirate for permission for his troops to wear a white and light blue cockade instead of the red one worn by all Spanish soldiers. »
• « The government accepted his proposal on 18 February 1812 and decided that from then on the national cockade of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata would be the white and light blue one. »
• « A few days later Belgrano decided to give his army a flag with the colours of the cockade. He unfurled it for the first time on 27 February when inaugurating two artillery batteries by the Paraná River. »
• « To distinguish his troops from the enemy, Belgrano endowed them with a white and light blue cockade. The illustrious criollo was not satisfied with this and on 27 February 1812 he had his soldiers formed and presented them with the flag he had created, with the same colours as those of the cockade. »